Time Zone Converter

One moment, read off in UTC and the major zones.

FREE - NO SIGN-UP - RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE

Your meeting times stay in this tab

  • IANAzone names
  • UTCalways shown
  • Liveupdates as you type
  • 1instant, many zones
Specification

Time Zone Converter at a glance

What you enter
A date, a time and a zone
What you get
One instant, listed by zone
Zone names
IANA zone names
Daylight saving
Handled by browser rules
Coverage
Major world zones and UTC
Price
Free
Account required
No
Where it runs
Runs locally in your browser
How to

How to use Time Zone Converter

  1. 1

    Set the starting point

    Set date, time and zone.

  2. 2

    Read the list

    Read the other zones.

  3. 3

    Copy it out

    Copy the summary.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Does it handle daylight saving?

The browser applies each zone's rules when it formats the reading, so a date inside a summer-time period is shown under that period's offset.

Why pick an IANA zone rather than an offset?

An offset changes across the year in many places. A zone name carries the rules, so the same name gives the right reading on any date you set.

Are all zones listed?

UTC and the major world zones are shown. A zone outside that list is not covered, so pick the nearest one that shares its rules.

Do my meeting details leave the tab?

No. The date, the time and the zone stay in the current browser tab. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored.

Background

Setting a time across countries

Pick the date, the time and the IANA zone you are starting from. The same instant is listed in UTC and the major world zones, so a meeting time can be read off rather than worked out.

  • Fix the instant in the zone you are sure about, then read every other zone off the same line.
  • Quote UTC alongside local times in an invite, so a reader in an unlisted zone can still work it out.
  • Check the date as well as the time; a late call in one zone is the next morning in another.

Full specification

Specification of the Time Zone Converter tool
What you enterA date, a time, and the IANA zone that time is in.
What you getThe same instant in UTC and in the major world time zones.
Zone namesIANA names, so the region is explicit rather than an abbreviation.
Daylight savingLocal rules are applied by the browser as it formats each zone.
CoverageUTC and the major world zones, not every zone in existence.
PriceFree
Account requiredNo
Where it runsAll calculations run locally in the current browser tab.
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